Emergency Management Directors in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$83,098
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$22,472
21.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$85,686
Nevada costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nevada — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$105,570
Kept after tax
$83,098
Worth in national money
$85,686
State rank
12
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Nevada's middle earner gets $105,570, putting the state 12 of 47 — about 13.11% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 485 occupations Nevada reports, this job comes in at 50 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Nevada is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $105,570 the take-home is $83,098; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $85,686 would nationally. The average comes to $118,170, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For emergency management directors, Nevada sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $105,570, ranking 12 of 47 and running about 13.11% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Emergency management directors ranks 50 of 485 occupations by median in Nevada, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Post-tax income for emergency management directors in Nevada, on $105,570, is $83,098 — equivalent to $85,686 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $118,170 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Emergency Management Directors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $69,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $105,570 |
| Top tenth earn over | $206,420 |
| This salary | $105,570 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Nevada | $83,098 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $83,098 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$172 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $105,570 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$238 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Nevada earn less than $105,570. The published range is $69,360 up to $206,420, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nevada's $83,098, worked from $105,570. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 50 of 485.
- Two cautions on $85,686, the adjusted value of that $105,570 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nevada. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 50 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for emergency management directors in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $69,360 to $206,420. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Nevada take-home of $83,098, on $105,570 for work ranking 50 of 485 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 50 of 485 in the state.
- This $85,686 adjusted figure, worked from $105,570, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 50 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 50 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $118,170, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $69,360 at the bottom tenth to $206,420 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $85,686.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $83,098 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Nevada is $118,170. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($69,360) and the ninetieth ($206,420) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Nevada's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $85,686 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Nevada levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $83,098 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.